![]() They became fast friends and travelled to Bolivia. He instead hitchhiked to Columbia where he made friends with Marcus Stamm, a teacher from Switzerland, who was on an expedition. Ghinsberg was saving up to travel to South America, dreaming of exploring the vast uninhabited heart of the Amazon jungle.īut by the time he saved up the tribes he wanted to find had already been discovered and civilised. The butterflies at the beginning and end of the movie were artistic licence, but the movie was pretty accurate. The journey to the Jungle movie was a long one - it took 12 years just to get it made.īut how did he survive and how true to life was it? Ghinsberg has said "he did a tremendous job" adding "you don't see Harry Potter when you watch it." ![]() ![]() He miraculously survived the ordeal and wrote a book about his experience, which is now a movie called Jungle starring Daniel Radcliffe. The Israeli was missing for three weeks and lost 35lbs as hunger, infection and disease took a toll. Twenty six years ago Israeli adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg ventured into the unchartered Bolivian jungle for three weeks and got lost.
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